Sugar Community Edition Release Notes Version 5.0d

New and Enhanced Features

Sugar 5.0 offers the following new and enhanced features, many of which are still being refined at this time.

Redesigned Emails Module

You can use the new Emails module as an email client to manage your inbound and outbound emails. You can send the emails that you compose in Sugar through any of your external mail accounts.

In addition, the Emails module offers the following features:

•	Ability to create Group folders to route emails for distribution.

•	A default personal folder named My Emails. You can create additional personal folders.

•	Ability to create records such as bugs and leads from inbound emails.

•	Ability to create an address book with entries from your list of users, contacts, and leads.

Note:

When you upgrade to Sugar 5.0, emails that you received in Sugar 4.5.1x. will be imported into My Emails inbox.

Redesigned Studio

The Studio User Interface has been redesigned to enhance user experience. The Studio editor enables you to customize modules by creating new fields and editing existing fields, layouts, field labels, and sub-panels and quick-create forms.

Module Builder

The Module Builder is a new feature that enables you to create custom modules.

Note:

5.0 contains several changes to page layouts, Several modules have additional buttons to reflect new functionality.